The result of this research showed that the pretest score are unsatisfactory, the lowest score of the pretest is 30.0 and the highest score is 63.5. After the students
are given treatment by the writer there was an increase 550 point 44.5 for the total score. The highest score in pretest is 63.5 also increased significantly to 83 in
post test. It can be concluded that the used of shadow reading by using short story can be suitable technique for improving students’ pronunciation, because it covers
the basic range of the technique in teaching pronunciation. In view of those researchs above, there was still one issue which had not been
investigated, that is, the implementation of reciprocal teaching technique to improve the students reading comprehension achievement. Therefore, the
researcher titled the research “The implementation of reciprocal teaching technique to improve the students reading comprehension achievement of SMPN
2 Natar”.
2.2 Concept of Reading Comprehension
Reading is a complex activity which is very important involving language and in order to get meaningful massage. Furthermore, Kamil et al. 2011:91 state that in
reading comprehension, the students tend to understand more when it is in the language they know better and when the text they are reading deals with culturally
recognition context. Reading comprehension is defined as the level of understanding of a textmessage. This understanding comes from the interaction
between the words that are written and how they trigger knowledge outside the textmessage.
In other hand, it can be cited that in reading skill there was an interaction between the readers and the author. In finding the massage, the readers use their prior
knowledge to visualize the information in their comprehension. In this process, the author tries to encode the massage to the readers, then the readers try to
decode the massage that is sent by the author. It is supported by Caldwell 2008:4 who stated that reading comprehension is the process of extracting and
constructing meaning through interaction and involvement with written language. The researcher agrees that people have a purpose when they are reading. Usually
the purpose of the reading passage is to find out ideas from the reading passage. According to Suparman 2005:1 there are two major reasons for reading 1
reading for pleasure; and 2 reading for information. Reading for pleasure it means that the readers read the passage because it can make them feel happy, it is
similar that for them reading is their hobby e.g. reading novel, comic, etc. Reading for information it means that the readers read the passage in order to do
something with the information that the readers get e.g. read newspaper, journal, etc.
Reading comprehension is a process in which students make sense of the written text in order to get information and knowledge from the text. Reading is important
because without it reading do not provide the reader with any information. Without comprehension, reading is simply following words on page from left to
right when we read it. The words on the page have no meaning. While people read the text, each of them have different reasons, the goal was to get some
understanding of what the author was trying to suggest and making conclusion of the text.
